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Three British people who allegedly smuggled drugs into Bali have been spared the death penalty and were let off with a one-year sentence.
Lisa Stocker, Jonathan Collyer and Phineas Float from East Sussex were stopped at Bali’s international airport with 17 packages of cocaine in February.
Stocker, who is a mum-of-three, and her partner Collyer had travelled together via Qatar while Float was accused of receiving the packages at an airport hotel.
But Stocker broke down in tears and told the court she was tricked into carrying the drugs, with her friend telling her it was Angel Delight.
Collyer admitted they were ‘very stupid’, and insisted they would not do it again.
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The trio faced the death penalty under Indonesia’s strict drug laws, but judge Heriyanti said he was reducing their sentence because they all behaved ‘politely’.
He handed down a one-year sentence, with the group expected to be released in February.
Convicted drug traffickers can be executed by firing squad in the country, and if they are spared the death penalty are often sentenced to life in prison.
But the nation has not carried out an execution since 2016 and in the last few months has repatriated several foreign convicts of drug offences.
Stocker had broken down in tears as she told the court she had been tricked into carrying the packages.
Meanwhile Float got into a shouting match at a previous hearing, telling a journalist to ‘f*** off’ on the first day of his trial.
Collyer’s dad Julian said he was in ‘deep shock’ for his son, with whom he had only been in contact once in the last three weeks.
He told MailOnline: ‘I’m very, very worried as any father or parent would be.’
Dean, a friend of Jon’s said he was unaware the couple had travelled to Indonesia and said the situation was ‘an absolute mess’.
Several high profile foreign drug smugglers have been allowed to return home from Indonesia in recent months.
Serge Atlaoui, who was sentenced to death for drug offences in 2007, was repatriated to France in February.
Last December Philippine drug convict Mary Jane Veloso was returned to Manila after more than a decade on death row.
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